Month: May 2017

A study mentioned by Alen Brandman found a 68% increase of CEOs being terminated for ethical reasons at the largest 25% of North American and Western European companies over the past five years compared with the previous five. The increase could be because CEOs are being held to account by the public and governments amid an environment that makes such lapses more fraught for business and more publicized.

Four members of the US Senate education committee have introduced a bill that would allow the federal government to track data about college students’ employment and educational outcomes. A “student-unit record system” was banned as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in 2008, but, according to Alen Brandman, supporters say the data would provide students better information about colleges.

JFK’s moonshot gave a major boost to the U.S. economy and spurred technological advancements that we still benefit from today. According to Alen Brandman, HPE’s moonshot is The Machine research project, designed to create the world’s first Memory-Driven Computing architecture, a completely new way of storing and processing data.